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This monograph is an original study of what is commonly termed the American "myth of Ham". It examines black and white Americans' recourse to the biblical character of Ham as a cultural strategy for explaining racial origins. Previous studies in the area have been restricted to associating the Hamitic idea with pro-slavery arguments, whereas the thesis of this project reveals a fundamental irony: black American Christians who reinforced the meanings of illegitimacy by appealing to Ham as the ancestor of the race.

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• Full title: Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity
• Subtitle: Race, Heathens, and the People of God
• Author: S. Johnson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 187
• EAN: 9781403965622
• ISBN: 1403965625
• ID: 02936636
• Publisher: Palgrave USA
• Weight: 473 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. December 2004

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